Morning Minute

Budget season is underway; the School Board considers naming a school after The North Star, Frederick Douglass's abolitionist newspaper.

Tomorrow is election day again; Round Hill becomes the fifth Loudoun town to pass a resolution on the potential negative environmental impacts of a planned factory nearby in West Virginia.

A state park in northwestern Loudoun is closer than ever; Loudoun County offers places to recycle those Christmas trees.

The cost of construction keeps going up for the Loudoun taxpayer; the Leesburg Town Council goes back to square one on preserving the Sycolin Cemetery.

Leesburg is now the third town to voice opposition to plans for an insulation factory in Ranson, WV; Loudouners pour the pressure on to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment at a public hearing with state lawmakers.

Loudoun's legal community pushes back on an apparent fast-tracking to a judicial nomination; a couple from Maryland goes to federal prison for stealing ATMs.

The Academies of Loudoun nursing program can stay open for now; the school system could lose a budget boon it's been able to assume for decades.

A state delegate from Prince William County proposes to cut tolls on the Dulles Toll Road by raising taxes on United Airlines; the Leesburg Town Council schedules a special meeting to talk about plans around the Sycolin Cemetery.

County supervisors recommend a team to notify Loudouners when treated sewage fertilizer will be spread next door; the School Board continues debate restraint and seclusion practices in the schools.

About 2,100 elementary schoolers in southern Loudoun will be going to different schools; Michelle Thomas of the Loudoun Freedom Center and Phillip Thompson of the Loudoun NAACP call the Town of Leesburg's plans for a historic black cemetery 'racist.'